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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 21, 1958)
Cougars, Vandals Next for Ducks UO Coach Cites Deliberate Play Vital in UW Win Coach Steve Belko was a pleased man Monday following his Oregon team's 57-53 basket ball victory over the University of Washington in McArthur Court Saturday night. The petsonable coach cited several reasons for Oregon's first Pacific Coast Conference victory: 1. “We played a decent defen sive game." 2. “We didn't make too many mistakes. The kids have the poise.” 3. “We played deliberate ball because i\e wanted to he on the offense as much as pos sible. We didn't want to get too many fouls called against us. 4. "Our shooting was up to par again. That was what hurt us the previous weekend in Los An geles.” 5. “Our board play was pretty good. I think we out-rebounded them by two or three. Washing ton had been getting more re bounds than its opponents even ■when it lost.” Belko's strategy of holding on to the ball as much as possible worked effectively against the Huskies. The Ducks outshot Washington .464 to .367: out rebounded the Huskies 39 to 37: and had only 15 fouls called against them—probably a low for the Webfoots this season. * Doug Smart the Huskies' massive 6’7” center scored 27 points against Oregon but no one else on the squad scored more than six. "We concentrated on Smart." Belko said Monday, “but we didn’t concentrate on only him. We were worried about their out side boys (guards Dick Crews and John Tuft) as well, and con centrated some of our efforts on them." As a result the Crews-Tuft duo were held to just 12 points be tween them throughout the evening. Jerry Anderson received the special mention of Belko for his play against the Huskies. "Ander>on is coming along at the guard position,” he said. The Webfoots now return to drills for their upcoming north ern clashes against Washington State and Idaho this weekend. Oregon will stage Mac Court practices until Wednesday wdien they leave for the Palouse country. JERRY ANDERSON Shines at New Position OREGON FORWARD Charlie Franklin is shown jumping a shot toward banket as thicks prepare for weekend trek to Inland Empire to meet Washington State and Idaho. Sophomore forward Dale Herron attempts to Idoek Franklin’s shot in Mon Jay afternoon practice session. Other Webfoots pictured from left to right are Jerry Anderson, Chuck Rask, George l‘ado\an and llal Duffy. Bruins, Bears Gain Lead In Conference Hoop Action PCC Standing* I California Oregon State Idaho CSC Oregon Washington Stanford COLA W L Pet .5 1 .883 5 1 .833 .2 I .6“' t 2 .677 4 3 .571 1 3 .250 1 4 .200 1 4 .200 W ashington State l 5 .167 by dick mckinney Emerald Sports Writer Pacific Coast Conference bas ketball standings were juggled considerably this past weekend as UCLA and California knocked 1 OSC out of the lead. California 1 gained a first place tie by de- j j feating Stanford on Friday and Oregon State on Saturday. UCLA defeated cross-town ri val USC in two bitterly contested games to gain a tie for first place with defending champion California. The Bruins of UCLA were a half game behind the Trojans when they met at Pan-Pacific auditorium in Los Angeles Friday night. UCLA guard Walt Torrance stole the ball with 35 seconds remaining in the first game and scored to give UCLA a close 52-51 vic tory. Pacing the Bruins was Dennis Crum who scored 17 points.’ USC's Jim Pugh led the Trojans with 18 points followed by Jim j Hanna with 14. Jim Halsten’s basket with 27 seconds left on Saturday night for UCLA tied the tilt at 67-67 ; and the Bruins went on to win by a 80-75 score in overtime. ' Pacing the victors was Walt Tor rance who hit for 24. Top scorer for the losing Trojans was Jack | Mount who scored 22 in a losing j cause. USC’s defeat dropped the Trojans from second place in conference standings with a 4-1 record to fifth with 4-3. Cal's defending champions top ped lowly Stanford on Friday by a 60-45 score. The Bears led all the way and had a 32-24 advan tage at halftime. Don McIntosh of California topped individual scoring with 16 counters. Stan ford's flashy sophomore John Arillaga led Stanford with 12. Stanford's defeat dropped them to a seventh place tie with Wash ington. Oregon State's high-riding Beavers were Cal’s next vic tim. The Bears lost their only game of the young conference season to coach Slats Gill's Beavers in the opening game of the season two weeks ago. This time, however, Cal was a little too much for Oregon State as coach Pete Newell's defending champs took advantage of a Keg Squads Tied For League Leads In Tuesday's IM bowling sec tion, Don Jacklin of Delta Upsi lon and Jack Bradley of Sigma Nu tied for high average hon ors, both had a 177 average. Also in the same section, Ken Johnson of Sigma Chi copped the high series title with a 508 total for three games. Bill Rose was high man of the Tuesday section with a 196 individual game. In the Wednesday section, Nishioka of Hale Kane took the high series laurels with a 174. High Game honors went to But ler of Barrister Inn with an even 200 game. High series went to Page of Alpha Tau Omega with a 517 for the set. Tuesday League \V L OB Delta Upsilon .4 0 — Campbell Club .4- 0 -— Sigma Nu .3 1 1 Sigma Chi .2 2 2 Phi Kappa Psi . 2 2 2 Phi Kappa Sigma .1 3 3 Tau Kappa Epsilon .0 4 4 Young Hall .0 4 4 Wednesday League W L GB Hale Kane .4 0 — Pi Kappa Alpha .4 0 — Delta Tau Delta .3 1 1 Alpha Tau Omega.3 1 1 Barrister Inn .1 3 3 Phi Gamma Delta .1 3 3 Beta Theta Pi .0 4 4 Sigma Alpha Mu .0 4 4 scoring drouth for Oregon State and won by 61-51. The 51 points scored by Ore gon State was the lowest output by the Beavers for the season. Cal was led by guard A1 Buch's 14 points and Dave Gambee of OSC topped all individual point getters with 15. Oregon State is now tied with Idaho for third place. Idaho's Gary Simmons scor ed 50 points in two nights to lead Idaho to tvio one-sided victories over Washington State. On Friday night >im nions scored 25 as the Vandals smashed WSC by H5-67. Simmons scored 25 again on Saturday night as his team rolled to a comparatively easy 67-58 victory. Idaho's two victories have put them in a tie with OSC for third and Washington State's losses dropped them to the cel lar. Oregon won their first con ference game of the season Sat urday night as they defeated the disappointing Washington Hus kies. Oregon spotted an early Washington lead and held on to ; their lead to gain a 57-53 vic tory. • : .. ) mm . ~ . <• OREGON’S HOOPERS hope that this will lx* the result of its Pacific Coast Conference against Washington State. The Ducks meet the Cougars on Friday night at Pullman and Idaho on Saturday night at Moscow. (Art by Les Gong) Vandal's Coach Calls Hoopsters 'Best in Years' (Kditor'* noli*: follow lug In I hi* outlook for Idaho’s bil«krtlMll team writ ion e\clusl\M> for The Knierald b> the H|mrl>i editor of thi* Idiilio Xrgoiiitiit, IIhIkHI Chapin. Stcvr Itrlko'n Oregon Wohfoots moot the \un daN (Ills Saturday at Minrim.) Us ItW KtHT C II \I*IN The 1957-58 Idaho Varulal bas betball team, which coach Harlan Hodge* has called the bed In hla four year* at the school, raced to an 8-2 pre-conference record and haa given indication that thia may tie "the year” for Idaho in the PCX’ race. Strong rebounding, plus vastly improved shooting, have been the keys to the early season Idaho success. Vandal guard <.ur\ Simmon*, who hit .IX |Milnt« against tin I n< I rujans at I«os Viiji'Im and hua topped l*CC scorer* much of th<- M'UMin, ha* Imm-ii the spark of flit- Idaho attach. Forward Jim Branom. the tall ! est man on the squad at 6-7. and i 0-4 center Gary M< Ewen have | provided most of the rebounding . ntrength. They have been helped, how* • ver. by Jumping John Llveiou.i, la Louisville, Kentucky, sophomore, who haa shown great promise In his initial varatty sca son. I.ivrloii*, who is equulh adept on offense or defense. led the finest freshman squad in liis tor> at Idaho tun years ago lint sat out last season due to scholastic ineligibility. Hounding out the stalling five is guard Whaylon Coletnan, per haps the moat consistent eager on the squad. Coleman has averaged around 10 points a game this sea son and is the team's playmaker. Hal Damiano, one of the top backboard men on the squad. is a first line reserve. He has been i hampered by a broken nose, suf fered earlier this year, but has seen a lot of action and may al ternate with Livetous at a for ward position. One of the reasons the Ifl.'i' oK V andal hoop squad is so Im proved over a year ago is an ahundanee of eupahle reserves. Bob Walton, 6-3 sophomore who has alternated between for 1 ward and guard, has scored well and done a better-tfian-average job defensively and on the back boards. Watcheharrp guard Billy Wil i son, a senior ball hawk, sparks the Vandal second team and has | been the most aggressive de fensive player on the squad. B. »I. Schaffer, who broke Into tlie starling lineup often Iasi season, has continued the im provement he displayed late last yeur and holsters the team at forward. Sparked by the blistering shoot ing of Simmons, the Idaho Van dals are living up to the promise they showed in pre-season play, and if PCC play so far is any in dication, they should make things rough for the other Conference squads. With only four seniors on the team, the Vandals face prospects of an even better season next year. Oregon, in 40 years of Pacific Coast Conference hoop play, has won 293 games and lost 287.
